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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
exophthalmic en · ADJ
Meanings
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Of, or relating to exophthalmos.
She was given hormone injections and pills and she grew slender. Judging from the exophthalmic bulge, it must've been thyroxine that they put her on.
1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 147:
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Having prominent eyeballs.
What an incredible, head-reeling collocation of cultures: Islamic texts sprawling on the Great Wall, a twelve-legged god looking down in exophthalmic frowning benevolence.
1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 528:
Deriveds
exophthalmic goiter · exophthalmic ophthalmoplegia